Feedback sought for Testimonials page...

[ixl]

Hi all...

I know many of you are reviewing The TCP/IP Guide -- it is large and will take time, I understand. If anyone, however, has anything good to say about the Guide based on what they have read so far that they are willing to let me use on my Testimonials page, please drop me an email. (I need to get something up there as it is empty now.)

A couple of you I have already been in contact with, no need to mail me again.

If you are willing, please indicate how you want to be identified.. normally I would put name, basic occupation and city and state/country.. but if you want something less-identifiable that is fine too of course.

Thanks.

c

[ixl]

Hasn't been much response to this.. maybe you are all off being busy doing other things. :)

Incidentally, for those who are reviewing The TCP/IP Guide, please don't worry about reporting typos, grammatical mistakes and so forth. The material is going to be professionally copy-edited and proof-read. I don't mind if you want to report little gotchas, but I am more interested in knowing if you read anything that doesn't make sense, or if there are any logic errors and so forth.

Thanks to all of you. I really appreciate your feedback and comments.

c

[deddard]

Will give you the required feedback soon - promise! This sort of work deserves some recognition.
I'm just prepping for my CCNA module 1 and C&G networking 2 in the next fortnight, so I'm busy (reading the guide will undoubtedly help!)

[Budfred]

I would be happy to peruse some more and provide comments, but I suspect my credentials would not be helpful to your cause, unless you are trying to appeal to computer amateurs... Let me know if you want me too and I will give it a go....

[LadyGrey]

Charles,
Super congrats on a wonderful work. I have really only started to get into the Guide but I will tell you, already I understand more than I did about what Networking is and why we have it. If an old Domestic Engineer can understand then you have really got something here. The only place you lost me was right at the beginning where you were explaining networking. I understand physical networking, computers connected together, but you lost me with the "logically connected". I understand the word, I understand what it means, but I don't understand how you are using it as applied to computers. So far that's the one and only place I hit a glitch. I would love to purchase the hard copy of the Guide. I'm one of those "lay in the bed and read" people.
I'm really enjoying the Guide and feel like I am learning something.
I love the way you write, down to earth and real!! I think with your introduction you put me at ease so that I could learn. If I'm all uptight and nervous nothing I read will make the slightest sense to me. But I felt at home with this and so am getting the knowledge out of it that you put in. I'm really looking forward to getting in deeper to this. It's fun to read and that's what keeps me going back to it. A book that is dull, no matter how well written, will never get read. You have kept my attention with this.
I'll keep ya up to date on how it goes.
LG;)

[pave_spectre]

I'll be happy to provide something once I get the chance to get past page 60 or so.:p

At the moment Im trying to sort out when I can take the CCNA, organise going to Western Aus for two weeks and looking for work,:rolleyes:, so I havent had time to look through it properly.

Based on the little I have actually managed to get through, it is remarkably easy to read and provides clarification and greater detail of concepts mentioned briefly in other study.

[ixl]

Thanks so much for the comments, all of you.

Whenever anyone *is* ready for something I could put on my Testimonials page, I will be grateful. Credentials DO NOT matter.

c

[Paleo Pete]

Well, I'll try to offer up some comments when I get a chance to read it, just downloaded two sample pages and neither one will open with anything I can find in Mandrake, the only PDF viewer I got to give me an understandable error message said it had a user password.

Guess I'll have to try on the Windows machine, haven't used it in about 3 weeks anyway so it needs a workout...

I'm wondering if it's not backward compatible with the older versions of PDF viewers on Mandrake 8.1. They work fine, I use them fairly frequently and about 1 out of 15 PDF files won't open. Guess I'll keep trying.

[ixl]

Thanks Pete.

The PDF requires Adobe Acrobat Reader 5 or higher. It's possible that if your reader is very old, it is only emulating v4 of the reader perhaps. Sorry for the trouble.

c

[Paleo Pete]

That's what I figured, just wanted to let you know how things were looking on my end. That's not the first time I've run across PDF files that wouldn't open, it averages about 1 out of 10 or so, which I'm pretty sure is just what you noted, backwards compatibility issue.

Anyway, I'll try and get some of them downloaded on the Windows machine in the next day or three, and take a look. I have no doubt you'll get a good review - I know your writing style well and have great confidence in you, which is why I've been recommending the PC Guide as the primary computer resource for people who want to learn since long before the forums existed. I worked with another tech forum for about a year before you set up the forums, and I steered everyone I could to the site because it's simply the best.

I'll steer people to the TCPIP Guide without even seeing it...I know I won't regret it either.